A man wipes off the headlights of the L.L. Bean Bootmobile in
the parking lot at the facility where the famous outdoor boot is
made. L.L. Bean is pushing back against a boycott led by a group
urging consumers not to shop at retailers that support
President-elect Donald Trump after it was revealed that Linda Bean,
heir of the Maine-based company’s founder, had donated to a
political action committee that helped elect Trump. “We are deeply
troubled by the portrayal of L.L. Bean as a supporter of any
political agenda,” Shawn Gorman, L.L. Bean’s executive chairman,
said in a statement posted to Facebook late Sunday.

Trump tours a Carrier factory in Indianapolis, Dec. 1, 2016.
Chuck Jones, the union leader who claims President-elect Donald
Trump lied to Carrier employees while touting a deal to keep jobs
in the U.S., says he started receiving harassing phone calls a half
hour after Trump slammed him on Twitter. “I’ve been doing this job
for 30 years,” Jones, president of the United Steelworkers Local
1999, told CNN on Thursday morning.